"was elected President of the Italian Republic at the fourth ballot with 665 votes out of 1,009, with support from the Democratic Party, New Centre-Right, Left Ecology Freedom, and non-party independents. Mattarella was officially endorsed by the Democratic Party, after his name was put forward by the Prime Minister Matteo Renzi. Mattarella replaced Giorgio Napolitano, who had served for nine years, the longest presidency in the history of the Italian Republic. In October 2016, a referendum has been held to approve a constitutional reform concerning the fundamental features of both Houses (Senate and Chamber of Deputies) within the Italian Parliament."
"of the Party of European Socialists. In October 2005, he was named senator for life, and was, therefore, one of the last two to be appointed by President of the Republic Carlo Azeglio Ciampi, together with Sergio Pininfarina. The general election in April 2006 saw a victory of the centre-left candidate Romano Prodi against the incumbent conservative Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi. After the election, the Presidents of both houses of parliament were chosen by the winning centre-left coalition, and so the centre-right House of Freedoms demanded an impartial candidate for the role of President of the Republic. The Union stressed"
"1.1% of all valid papers (over one million less), to votes for the Forza Italia party. 2006 Italian general election The 2006 Italian general election for the two Chambers of the Italian Parliament was held on 9 and 10 April 2006. Romano Prodi, leader of the centre-left coalition The Union, narrowly defeated the incumbent Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, leader of the centre-right coalition House of Freedoms. Initial exit polls suggested a victory for Prodi, but the results narrowed as the count progressed. On 11 April 2006, Prodi declared victory; Berlusconi never conceded defeat explicitly but this is not required by"
"2006 Italian general election The 2006 Italian general election for the two Chambers of the Italian Parliament was held on 9 and 10 April 2006. Romano Prodi, leader of the centre-left coalition The Union, narrowly defeated the incumbent Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, leader of the centre-right coalition House of Freedoms. Initial exit polls suggested a victory for Prodi, but the results narrowed as the count progressed. On 11 April 2006, Prodi declared victory; Berlusconi never conceded defeat explicitly but this is not required by the Italian law. Preliminary results showed The Union leading the House of Freedoms in the Chamber"
"2006 Italian general election in Sardinia The Italian general election of 2006 took place on 10–11 April 2006. The election was won in Sardinia by the centre-left The Union, which prevailed also nationally. !rowspan=""1"" align=""left"" valign=""top""|Coalitions leaders !rowspan=""1"" align=""center"" valign=""top""|votes !rowspan=""1"" align=""center"" valign=""top""|votes (%) !rowspan=""1"" align=""center"" valign=""top""|seats !rowspan=""1"" align=""left"" valign=""top""|Parties !rowspan=""1"" align=""center"" valign=""top""|votes !rowspan=""1"" align=""center"" valign=""top""|votes (%) !rowspan=""1"" align=""center"" valign=""top""|seats !rowspan=""8"" align=""left"" valign=""top""|Romano Prodi |valign=""top""|349,259 |valign=""top""|28,808 !rowspan=""6"" align=""left"" valign=""top""|Silvio Berlusconi !rowspan=""1"" align=""left"" valign=""top""|Gavino Sale !rowspan=""1"" align=""left"" valign=""top""|Bastianu Cumpostu !rowspan=""1"" align=""left"" valign=""top""|Total coalitions !rowspan=""1"" align=""right"" valign=""top""|1,049,503 !rowspan=""1"" align=""right"" valign=""top""|100.0 !rowspan=""1"" align=""right"" valign=""top""|18 !rowspan=""1"" align=""left"" valign=""top""|Total parties !rowspan=""1"" align=""right"" valign=""top""|1,049,503 !rowspan=""1"" align=""right"""
"initially tipped to become President of the Italian Republic once the Chamber of Deputies reconvened, but D'Alema himself stepped back, endorsing the official candidate of the centre-left coalition, Giorgio Napolitano, who was elected. Immediately following the April 2006 election, he was proposed as the future President of the Chamber of Deputies. The Communist Refoundation Party, however, strongly pushed for Fausto Bertinotti to become the next President. After a couple of days of heated debate, D'Alema stepped back to prevent a fracture between political parties, an act applauded by his allies. The same month, he was appointed as Deputy Prime Minister"
"by their respective Regional Councils so as to guarantee representation to minorities. The election needs a wide majority that is progressively reduced from two-thirds to one-half plus one of the votes after the third ballot. The only Presidents ever to be elected on the first ballot are Francesco Cossiga and Carlo Azeglio Ciampi. Ciampi was replaced by Giorgio Napolitano, who was elected on 10 May 2006. While it is not forbidden by law, no President had ever served two terms until 20 April 2013, when President Giorgio Napolitano was reelected. According to the Constitution, any citizen that is fifty on"
"2006 Italian general election in Lombardy The Italian general election of 2006 took place on 9–10 April 2006. The election was won in Lombardy by the centre-right House of Freedoms coalition, differently from what happen at the national result. Eleven provinces gave a majority or a plurality to Silvio Berlusconi's alliance, while voters of the Province of Mantua supported the new Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi. !rowspan=""1"" align=""left"" valign=""top""|Coalition leader !rowspan=""1"" align=""center"" valign=""top""|votes !rowspan=""1"" align=""center"" valign=""top""|votes (%) !rowspan=""1"" align=""center"" valign=""top""|seats !rowspan=""1"" align=""left"" valign=""top""|Party !rowspan=""1"" align=""center"" valign=""top""|votes !rowspan=""1"" align=""center"" valign=""top""|votes (%) !rowspan=""1"" align=""center"" valign=""top""|seats !rowspan=""5"" align=""left"" valign=""top""|Silvio Berlusconi !rowspan=""7"" align=""left"" valign=""top""|Romano"
"integrated with a number of representatives appointed by the twenty Italian regions, in a common session on May 8 in order to commence voting for the election of the new President of the Italian Republic. According to the Italian Constitution, the election must be held in the form of secret ballot, with the Senators, the Deputies and 58 regional representatives allowed to cast their votes. When the 2006 election was held, the Senate counted 322 members and the Chamber of Deputies counted 629 members; the electors were in total 1009. The election is held in the ""Palazzo Montecitorio"", home of"
"proceed with his transition to government. On 16 May he was invited by Napolitano to form a government. The following day, 17 May 2006, Prodi and his second cabinet were sworn into office. Romano Prodi obtained the support for his cabinet on 19 May at the Senate and on 23 May at the Chamber of Deputies. Also on 18 May, Prodi laid out some sense of his new foreign policy when he pledged to withdraw Italian troops from Iraq and called the Iraq War a ""grave mistake that has not solved but increased the problem of security"". The coalition led"
"so overwhelmingly in favour of The Union that the election would be highly unlikely to be overturned in Berlusconi's favour. The last ruling of the supreme court (""Corte di Cassazione"") on 19 April 2006 stated that Romano Prodi won the election by 24,755 votes. On 23 November 2006, the Rome Attorney's office announced to have started an inquiry following the release of ""Uccidete la democrazia"" (Kill the democracy), a documentary movie about a supposed attempt by the centre-right government to manipulate the electoral results by switching a large number of blank ballot papers, which notably fell down from 4.2% to"
"on 8 May 2006, he received 369 votes, not enough to be elected. He received the votes from the right-wing coalition but he was soundly refused by the majority of the house, L'Unione, for being considered as the factotum of Silvio Berlusconi. The election was won by Giorgio Napolitano, the candidate of L'Unione, on May 10, 2006. On 18 June 2007, Letta was made a member of the advisory board of Goldman Sachs International, assigned by the bank to ""provide strategic consulting on growth opportunities, with a special focus on Italy."" Chairman of Goldman Sachs International Peter Sutherland said in"
"control of both chambers. On 19 April 2006, Italy's Supreme Court of Cassation ruled that Prodi had indeed won the election, winning control of the Chamber of Deputies by only 24,755 votes out of more than 38 million votes cast, and winning 158 seats in the Senate to 156 for Berlusconi's coalition. Even so, Berlusconi refused to concede defeat, claiming unproven fraud. Prodi's appointment was somewhat delayed, as the outgoing President of the Republic, Carlo Azeglio Ciampi, ended his mandate in May, not having enough time for the usual procedure (consultations made by the President, appointment of a Prime Minister,"
"2006 Italian general election in Veneto The Italian general election of 2006 took place on 10–11 April 2006. The election was won in Veneto by the centre-right House of Freedoms coalition by a landslide in an election narrowly won by the centre-left The Union at the national level. !rowspan=""1"" align=""left"" valign=""top""|Coalition leader !rowspan=""1"" align=""center"" valign=""top""|votes !rowspan=""1"" align=""center"" valign=""top""|votes (%) !rowspan=""1"" align=""center"" valign=""top""|seats !rowspan=""1"" align=""left"" valign=""top""|Party !rowspan=""1"" align=""center"" valign=""top""|votes !rowspan=""1"" align=""center"" valign=""top""|votes (%) !rowspan=""1"" align=""center"" valign=""top""|seats !rowspan=""7"" align=""left"" valign=""top""|Silvio Berlusconi !rowspan=""10"" align=""left"" valign=""top""|Romano Prodi |valign=""top""|848,830 |valign=""top""|68,876 !rowspan=""1"" align=""left"" valign=""top""|Giorgio Panto !rowspan=""1"" align=""left"" valign=""top""|Others !rowspan=""1"" align=""left"" valign=""top""|Total coalitions !rowspan=""1"" align=""right"" valign=""top""|3,184,017 !rowspan=""1"""
"valign=""top""|100.0 !rowspan=""1"" align=""right"" valign=""top""|18 !rowspan=""1"" align=""left"" valign=""top""|Coalitions leaders !rowspan=""1"" align=""center"" valign=""top""|votes !rowspan=""1"" align=""center"" valign=""top""|votes (%) !rowspan=""1"" align=""center"" valign=""top""|seats !rowspan=""1"" align=""left"" valign=""top""|Parties !rowspan=""1"" align=""center"" valign=""top""|votes !rowspan=""1"" align=""center"" valign=""top""|votes (%) !rowspan=""1"" align=""center"" valign=""top""|seats !rowspan=""8"" align=""left"" valign=""top""|Romano Prodi |valign=""top""|41,847 |valign=""top""|23,545 !rowspan=""6"" align=""left"" valign=""top""|Silvio Berlusconi !rowspan=""1"" align=""left"" valign=""top""|Antonio Delitalia !rowspan=""1"" align=""left"" valign=""top""|Gavino Sale !rowspan=""1"" align=""left"" valign=""top""|Bastianu Cumpostu !rowspan=""1"" align=""left"" valign=""top""|Total coalitions !rowspan=""1"" align=""right"" valign=""top""|948,425 !rowspan=""1"" align=""right"" valign=""top""|100.0 !rowspan=""1"" align=""right"" valign=""top""|9 !rowspan=""1"" align=""left"" valign=""top""|Total parties !rowspan=""1"" align=""right"" valign=""top""|948,425 !rowspan=""1"" align=""right"" valign=""top""|100.0 !rowspan=""1"" align=""right"" valign=""top""|9 2006 Italian general election in Sardinia The Italian general election of 2006 took place on 10–11 April 2006. The election was"
"and Cuffaro was confirmed president of Sicily. 2006 Sicilian regional election The Sicilian regional election of 2006 for the renewal of the Sicilian Regional Assembly and the Presidency of Sicily was held on 28 May 2006. The election was competed by three competitors: Salvatore Cuffaro, incumbent President and House of Freedoms candidate; Rita Borsellino, candidate of The Union; and Nello Musumeci, MEP elected for the National Alliance and now leader of the autonomist movement Sicilian Alliance. In the end, Cuffaro won the election, despite a heavy loss of support compared with five years before, when he was elected with 59.1%"
"the motion of confidence and oath of office). After the acrimonious election of Giorgio Napolitano to replace Ciampi, Prodi could proceed with his transition to government. On 16 May he was invited by Napolitano to form a government. The following day, 17 May 2006, Prodi and his second cabinet were sworn into office. Prodi's new cabinet drew in politicians from across his centre-left winning coalition, in addition to Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa, an unelected former official of the European Central Bank with no partisan membership. Romano Prodi obtained the support for his cabinet on 19 May at the Senate and on 23"
"2006 Italian Chamber of Deputies election, North and Central American division The 2006 Italian general election was the first in the country's history in which Italian and dual citizens living outside the country could vote by postal ballot in international electoral districts. Twelve members of the Italian Chamber of Deputies and six members of the Italian Senate were elected in this way. Italian and dual citizens in North America and Central America (including the Caribbean) elected two members of the Italian Chamber of Deputies. The winning candidates were Gino Bucchino of Romano Prodi's election coalition, The Union, and Salvatore Ferrigno"
"joint session for the election of the President of the Italian Republic, which leads to the presidency Sergio Mattarella. On 12 December 2016, after the resignation of the Renzi Cabinet, Paolo Gentiloni became the new Prime Minister, and Fedeli became Minister of Education, Universities and Research. She was re-elected as Senator at the 2018 elections and was the Democratic Party candidate for the role of President of the Senate: eventually the elected president was Maria Elisabetta Alberti Casellati from Forza Italia. Valeria Fedeli Valeria Fedeli (born 29 July 1949) is an Italian politician, former Minister of Education, Universities and Research"
"2006 Sicilian regional election The Sicilian regional election of 2006 for the renewal of the Sicilian Regional Assembly and the Presidency of Sicily was held on 28 May 2006. The election was competed by three competitors: Salvatore Cuffaro, incumbent President and House of Freedoms candidate; Rita Borsellino, candidate of The Union; and Nello Musumeci, MEP elected for the National Alliance and now leader of the autonomist movement Sicilian Alliance. In the end, Cuffaro won the election, despite a heavy loss of support compared with five years before, when he was elected with 59.1% of votes. Salvatore Cuffaro, 48, was first"
"summer. Average winter temperatures vary from on the Alps to Italy has been a unitary parliamentary republic since 2 June 1946, when the monarchy was abolished by a constitutional referendum. The President of Italy (""Presidente della Repubblica""), currently Sergio Mattarella since 2015, is Italy's head of state. The President is elected for a single seven years mandate by the Parliament of Italy and some regional voters in joint session. Italy has a written democratic constitution, resulting from the work of a Constituent Assembly formed by the representatives of all the anti-fascist forces that contributed to the defeat of Nazi and"
"declared he would vote for Napolitano. The voting operations, started at 9:30 CEST, resulted in the election of Giorgio Napolitano as President of the Italian Republic. There has been criticism from across the political spectrum about the presidential elections, mostly from the minority right-wing coalition. Since the speakers of both houses of parliament were chosen by the winning coalition, the House of Freedoms demanded an impartial candidate for the role of president. The Union stressed the fact that the Italian Constitution demands that the president be a defender of the constitution, hinting that such a quality was scarce among the"
"Italy, accessed 27 July 2011."" 2006 Italian Chamber of Deputies election, North and Central American division The 2006 Italian general election was the first in the country's history in which Italian and dual citizens living outside the country could vote by postal ballot in international electoral districts. Twelve members of the Italian Chamber of Deputies and six members of the Italian Senate were elected in this way. Italian and dual citizens in North America and Central America (including the Caribbean) elected two members of the Italian Chamber of Deputies. The winning candidates were Gino Bucchino of Romano Prodi's election coalition,"
"Sachs, Prodi ran in 1996 as lead candidate of The Olive Tree coalition, winning the general election and serving as Prime Minister of Italy until 1998. Following the victory of his coalition The Union over the House of Freedoms led by Silvio Berlusconi in the April 2006 Italian elections, Prodi took power again. On 24 January 2008, he lost a vote of confidence in the Senate house and consequently tendered his resignation as Prime Minister to Italian President Giorgio Napolitano, but he continued in office for almost four months for routine business, until early elections were held and a new"
"April 2006 Italian elections. Following a government crisis, Prodi submitted his resignation on 21 February 2007. Three days later, he was asked by President Giorgio Napolitano to stay on as prime minister and he agreed to do so. On 28 February 2007, Prodi narrowly survived a senate no confidence vote. On 24 January 2008, the Prodi II Cabinet went through a new crisis because Minister of Justice Clemente Mastella retracted his support to the Cabinet. Consequently, the Prodi Cabinet lost the vote of confidence and the President Giorgio Napolitano called a new general election. The election set against two new"
"success in May elections, Sivio Berlusconi was returned head of the Italian government, the longest-serving cabinet in the history of the Italian republic. Again all key ministerial posts were given to Forza Italia members: Interior (Claudio Scajola 2001–2002, Giuseppe Pisanu 2002–2006), Defence (Antonio Martino 2001–2006), Finance (Giulio Tremonti, 2001–2004 and 2005–2006), Industry (Antonio Marzano 2001–2005, Claudio Scajola 2005–2006) and Foreign Affairs (Franco Frattini, 2002–2004). Additionally, National Alliance leader Gianfranco Fini was appointed Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister from 2004 to 2006, while Roberto Castelli, senior figure of Lega Nord was Justice Minister from 2001 to 2006. In 2004 European"
"formed. On 24 March 2018, following the elections of the presidents of the two houses of the Italian Parliament, Roberto Fico of the M5S, and Maria Elisabetta Alberti Casellati of Forza Italia (FI), Prime Minister Paolo Gentiloni resigned his post to President Sergio Mattarella. In accordance with common practice in Italy, Mattarella asked the prime minister to remain in office to deal with the current affairs until a new cabinet is formed. On 31 May 2018, following 88 days of negotiations and several impasses, law professor Giuseppe Conte was appointed as the prime minister with support from the League and"
"Giorgio Napolitano Giorgio Napolitano, (; born 29 June 1925) is an Italian politician who served as the 11th President of the Republic from 2006 to 2015, the only Italian President to be reelected to the Presidency. Due to his dominant position in Italian politics, critics often refer to him as ""Re Giorgio"" (""King George""). He is the longest serving President in the history of the modern Italian Republic, which has been in existence since 1946. Although the presidency is a nonpartisan office as guarantor of Italy's Constitution, Napolitano was a longtime member of the Italian Communist Party (and of its"
"post-Communist social democratic successors, from the Democratic Party of the Left onwards). He was a leading member of a modernizing faction on the right of the party. First elected to the Chamber of Deputies in 1953, he took an assiduous interest in parliamentary life and was President of the Chamber of Deputies from 1992 to 1994. He was Minister of the Interior from 1996 to 1998 under Romano Prodi. Napolitano was appointed a Senator for life in 2005 by President Carlo Azeglio Ciampi. In May 2006, he was elected by parliament as President of Italy. During his first term of"
"for the Northern League and Tricolour Flame which fielded one apiece. Romano Prodi's Union received the most votes. Renato Turano received the most first preference votes from this list and was declared elected. More than ninety-five per cent of votes cast in this election were from the United States of America or Canada. The American result was a virtual tie between Berlusconi's list and Prodi's list. In Canada, Prodi's list won a significant victory. Renato Turano credited the Canadian turnout as vital for his election. ""Source: ARCHIVIO STORICO DELLE ELEZIONI - Consultazione dati: Senato 09/04/2006, Area ESTERO, Ripartizione AMERICA SETTENTRIONALE"
"incumbent President Giorgio Napolitano, holder of the post since 2006, agreed to run for another term in an attempt to break the parliamentary deadlock with the aim of safeguarding the continuity of the country's institutions. The number of seats per party was as follows: In the first three ballots the required majority was 672 votes. Further ballots require a simple majority of electors, in this case 504 votes. Berlusconi and his coalition refused to support the PD's Fourth Round choice of Romano Prodi, claiming he was unacceptable as a compromise candidate. As a result, leaders from all political parties except"
"2006 Italian general election in Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol The Italian general election of 2006 took place on 10–11 April 2006. In Trentino the centre-right came first narrowly ahead of the centre-left, as it happened nationally, while in South Tyrol the South Tyrolean People's Party led the centre-left to a major victory, but lost almost 10% of the vote from 2001 due to the alliance with Italian parties. !rowspan=""1"" align=""left"" valign=""top""|Coalition leader !rowspan=""1"" align=""center"" valign=""top""|votes !rowspan=""1"" align=""center"" valign=""top""|votes (%) !rowspan=""1"" align=""left"" valign=""top""|Party !rowspan=""1"" align=""center"" valign=""top""|votes !rowspan=""1"" align=""center"" valign=""top""|votes (%) !rowspan=""9"" align=""left"" valign=""top""|Romano Prodi |valign=""top""|99,131 |valign=""top""|7,451 !rowspan=""6"" align=""left"" valign=""top""|Silvio Berlusconi !rowspan=""1"" align=""left"" valign=""top""|Others"
"the election. Pollster claimed this election to be much closer than five years ago, and majority of surveys even put Borsellino to lead over Cuffaro. However, Sicily confirmed one more time in the April 2006 national election, in which the House of Freedoms obtained 57% of regional votes, to be still a centre-right stronghold. The election was in fact characterized by separate contemporary votes for centre-right parties and Rita Borsellino as president, as the sum of centre-right coalition parties obtained over 60% of votes. In any case, the disjoint vote was not sufficient to ensure Borsellino to win the election,"